to the table to cut spending. >> he doesn't look like he was kicking and screaming. he was debonair and sweatless. on wednesday the president will lay out his long-term deficit reduction plan. he's going to take control of the fight? will he or won't he. richard wolffe is also a political analyst. i hear from one of our colleagues here that you, and you may well believe, that there was strategy behind this. >> sure there was. >> tell me what the president, like a bicycle race, let paul ryan say i'm going to do all this stuff and he planned this wednesday thing. >> this wasn't just the timing, the sequencing in terms of going after them. you let otherç people put the price down first. in any negotiation, you come in second. but the sequencing has been in the works for months. they knew when they were putting the tax deal together at the end of the lame duck, the end of last congress that they would come up against this budget deal. they would give up a lot and